[olug] OT: Newer Dell Hardware

[Curtis LaMasters]

Dedicated bonded dual port intel gig-e cards for now.  However I have
a good line on doing infinity band if required.  Unless I'm mistaken,
adding an HA Equalogic SAN would more than double the cost of the
solution.

Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
http://www.builtnetworks.com



On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:44 PM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping they'll get me a nice arista 10GbE(48port) switch for my xmas bonus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Aric Aasgaard" <aric at omahax.com>
>
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:36:49
> To: 'Omaha Linux User Group'<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] OT: Newer Dell Hardware
>
>
> What are you using to connect the r410s to the r905s?  I hope not just the
> onboard Ethernet.
>
> Charles let me play with some of his toys for a bit and I did something
> similar with 6 1950s and 2950 with 6 drives in raid 5 with openfiler.
>
> It sucked balls when I had a bunch of virtuals hitting the hard drives.
> Running hard drive benchmarks on 2 separate victuals turn it in to a
> crawling slow POS.  I'd hate to see what it would be like with like 10+
> virtuals making db queries.
>
> If your dumping that kinda cash on the project id seriously consider getting
> at least a equallogic san.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Curtis LaMasters
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:57 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] OT: Newer Dell Hardware
>
> I'll be running 3 R905's in a Citrix XenServer pool and a pair of
> R410's as HA OpenFiler box's later this month.  I'm sure it'll be fun.
>
> Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Charles.Bird<charles.bird at powerdnn.com>
> wrote:
>> Just got a shipment of Dell R410's in this morning, they are looking
> pretty
>> nice.
>> Getting a couple of R900's this month too, I cant wait to try those out!
>>
>> Anyone on the list running Linux on these models? Anything horrific to
>> share?
>>
>> Charles
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